{"id":5045,"date":"2015-03-10T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2015-03-10T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:55:04","slug":"these-are-the-gaffes-that-try-candidates-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5045","title":{"rendered":"These are the Gaffes that Try Candidate&#8217;s Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the Donna Edwards announcement video was great. She comes across as strongly progressive and completely in touch with real people. It was polished but didn&#8217;t have the &#8220;look, it&#8217;s a campaign commercial&#8221; feel. Using video instead of email also allowed Edwards to introduce herself to many new people.<\/p>\n<p>But then there is silhouette of Maryland at the end that includes the Virginia portion of the Delmarva peninsula. Not a great way to introduce yourself to the Shore or, more generally, the State she wants to represent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/EdwardsDelmarva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/EdwardsDelmarva.jpg\" alt=\"EdwardsDelmarva\" width=\"879\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/EdwardsDelmarva.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/EdwardsDelmarva-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what will really tee Edwards off is that I am sure she had nothing personally to do with it even though she is still responsible for it. Even more irritating will be that I suspect few would notice unless some blogger some pointed it out and blew it up so you could see it when he should be doing his real job:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edwardsblowup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5048 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edwardsblowup.jpg\" alt=\"Edwardsblowup\" width=\"278\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: She has fixed the logo on her campaign web page but the video with Accomack and Northampton lives on. Apparently, I am not the only one who noticed, as Sen. President Mike Miller mentioned it on the Senate floor. Will he begin recognizing Sen. Mathias as the gentleman from Accomack?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the Donna Edwards announcement video was great. She comes across as strongly progressive and completely in touch with real people. It was polished but didn&#8217;t have the &#8220;look, it&#8217;s a campaign commercial&#8221; feel. Using video instead of email also allowed Edwards to introduce herself to many new people. But then there is silhouette &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">These are the Gaffes that Try Candidate&#8217;s Souls<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donna-edwards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1jn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5057,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}